Senator Fred Harris at the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report Conference

Keynote remarks (5:23) on Thursday, September 6, 2018 at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report Conference, co-sponsored by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the National League of Cities. Opening remarks from Dean Laura Bloomberg of the Humphrey School.
Former US Senator Fred Harris is a widely published author and professor emeritus of political science at the University of New Mexico, where he continues some teaching in the UNM Fred Harris Congressional Internship Program. He was twice elected from Oklahoma as a progressive and reform-minded US senator (1964-1971) and is the only surviving member of the Kerner Commission. Senator Harris has been a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico, a visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonima de Mexico, and has taught and lectured extensively throughout Latin America, Europe, and Asia. He has produced 20 nonfiction books on politics, government, and policy-including, as co-editor (with Alan Curtis), "Healing Our Divided Society", a 50th anniversary update of the 1968 Kerner Report.